Townsend, Solomon, 1746-1811. Townsend family papers, 1746-1864.
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Townsend family papers, 1746-1864.
Papers, 1746-1874, consisting of correspondence, accounts, journals, financial documents, and school exercises created by various members of the Townsend family. The first two boxes contain business and personal correspondence, bonds, indentures, accounts, bills, etc., ca. 1750-1864, including 69 import certificates, 1827-1832, for the import of brandy and gin into the Port of New York. Members of the family represented include Jacob, Robert, Solomon (father and son), Ann, William, Peter S., David, Elizabeth, Isaiah, Maurice E., Phebe, Sarah, Anna Townsend Lawrence, and Mary Townsend Nicoll. There is also a pen and ink caricature of Lieutenant William Seton Ogden, U.S. Navy, dated 1838. Several documents relate to trade with the West Indies during the 1750s. Another large group of documents consists of letters from merchants in New Orleans to Townsend & Stanton, New York City, during 1834-1836. Some papers have annotations in a later hand. The third box contains nineteenth-century transcripts of deeds and other documents relating to Townsend family property. The fourth box contains 36 letters to and from various members of the Townsend family, mostly about family matters, although there are five letters dated 1847, from D. Stoddard of Boston to Solomon Townsend, dealing with Stoddard's efforts to sell Townsend's tea cargo. It also contains a folder of miscellaneous letters, telegrams and notes, including two volumes of penmanship exercises by the younger Solomon Townsend, dated 1820; a business notebook belonging to Samuel Townsend, dated 1746-1752; a daybook of his, dated 1761-1762; a fragment of a daybook dated 1761-1762, with "Negro Ledger" written on the cover, which records small sales at Oyster Bay to African American slaves; a journal of a voyage from Boston to Jamaica and London on the ship Glasgow, by the elder Solomon Townsend, dated 1776, mostly technical notes on wind conditions, etc.; a letter from the younger Solomon Townsend to his brother Samuel, dated Canton, 1825, and describing the voyage from Java to Canton; accounts of the estate of the elder Samuel Townsend, in account with Robert Townsend, covering the period 1791-1806; a cash book, dated 1781-1784; a book of estray records, dated 1762-1775, listing strayed livestock in the Oyster Bay area and describing their earmarks; and a list of ships out of various ports in Connecticut and Rhode Island, dated 1820; and two wrap cases, each containing two notebooks. One contains a manuscript dealing with trigonometry, probably the one mentioned in Peter S. Townsend's diary as having been written by his grandfather, Samuel Townsend, in 1736, and a receipt book, dated 1806-1810. The other wrap case contains two notebooks dated 1844, containing material on family history, much of it notes made on a visit to Rhode Island.
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1.6 linear feet (4 boxes)
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